I still think tvell is scum, but there's absolutely no movement on him. It doesn't help that his 24 hour v/la has gone on for 3+ days.
Unvote
Honestly, I really didn't like how the Kage wagon started. Some votes, starting heavily with the "rolefishing darla" argument, followed by some other votes that felt alot like sheeping. After reading the rolefishing post, I have to agree with Kage that it didn't seem like explicit rolefishing. Coaching at best, or trying to be/appear, helpful and experienced.
That said, under further scrutiny. The jumping on little things like "backtracking" or accusations that "shouldn't be taken lightly" seem to be the closest thing to scumhunting he's done. The pushing for the VI policy lynch relatively early in the day seems lazy at best.
Also, I really don't like his waste of a gigantic post on tvella's iso. I generally hate the posting of iso's when the majority of the information in them is irrelevant and useless. The whole post seems to be a vehicle in order to support tvella and defend tvella's vote. Which is really interesting because he is effectively defending his own vote by proxy, as they are both on the Darla-VI wagon.
What's more is that while they're both voting for DVI they're voting for very different reasons. tvella makes arguments that he believes actually make Darla scum, while Kage seems to be leaning more to the policy-lynch VI argument more than the she's actually scummy argument. The whole thing seems to be trying to use tvell as some sort of support, (which is just sad.) But while their what's are the same, their WHY's are completely different, which makes the whole argument weak.
The ridiculous number of qualifiers he uses in the posts he finds strong/agreed with also threw up a red flag. Kage "can't argue with his conclusion," "see
nothing wrong with this post," finds "his [defense] isn't bad," "[he's] not so scummy" and concludes that tvella "kind of changed [Kage's] mind." If you felt so strongly, why bother posting that wall in the first place?
Vote: Kage
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Mist is useless but not worth a vote.
My discouragement of focusing on flavor was with respect to discussion at the time (context). Flavor chat had derailed actual scumhunting, was mostly speculation, and was going nowhere. Why don't we wait until it's actually useful?
